Offers a new conceptual framework to understand human rights in their changing political dimension
Documents key case studies/contexts in which human rights are expressed in terms of political battlefields
Examines the ambivalence and limitations of such theoretical/conceptual apparatus.

Autorentext

Gabriel Blouin-Genest is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA.
Marie-Christine Doran is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Sylvie Paquerot is Associate Professor of Political and Legal Studies at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Becoming Human Rights Subjects Through New Practices.- Part I The Changing Nature of Human Rights and Their Political Boundaries: New Definitions, Longstanding Debates.- 2. Human Rights As Battlefields: Power Relations, Translations and TransformationsA Theoretical Framework.- 3. The Gender of Human Rights: The French Debate Over les droits de l'Homme.- 4. The Right to Water: The Political Function of Human Rights as an Expression of the Contradictions in Globalization.- 5. Politics of Neutrality, Human Rights and Armed Struggles: The Turkey Example.- Part II Overcoming the Frontiers of Discrimination and Structural Violence: Intersectional Struggles of Human Rights from Below and Transformations of Political Space.- 6. Child Prisoners, Human Rights, and Human Rights Activism: Beyond 'Emergency' and 'Exceptionality'An Australian Case Study.- 7. Who is a Child? The Politics of Human Rights, the Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC), and Child Marriage in Nigeria.- 8. Forcibly Sterilized: Peru's Indigenous Women and the Battle for Rights.- 9. Politicization of Rights-Based Development and Marginalization of Human Rights from Below: The Case of Maternal Health Rights in India.- Part III Social Contestation and the Broadening of HumanRights' Meanings.- 10. Indigenous Peoples in Chile: Contesting Violence, Building New Meanings for Rights and Democracy.- 11. Improving HIV/AIDS Drugs Access: A Genealogy of the Human Right to Health from Below.- 12. Internet Access as Human Right: A Dystopian Critique from the Occupied Palestinian Territory.- 13. Conclusion: Changing Human Right Practices and the Battlefields of World Politics.